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PaperTowel ,

I do too, but no one finds that interesting

burningquestion ,

More interesting to me is that a full fern life cycle takes two generations to play out. A diploid (two sets of each chromosome) fern throws off spores, and the spores grow into haploid (one set of each chromosome) plantlets. The haploid plantlets fertilize each other, and boom, the offsping are diploid ferns.

meyotch ,

Truly interesting, isn’t it? Even cooler is that more ‘modern’ flowering plants do the same thing, but they have truncated and miniaturized the haploid phase so it is completely dependent on the diploid sporophyte.

Don’t get me started on mosses. I have to go to work!

PlasticExistence ,

I would like to subscribe to your moss facts newsletter

Akasazh ,
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Did you know that Richard Ayoade, who played Moss in ‘the IT-crowd’ debuted on tv in ‘Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace’?

PlasticExistence ,

That is technically on topic, so well done!

captainlezbian ,

Ok but what if we want to know more about mosses

captainlezbian ,

Flowering plants first evolved in the late Cretaceous. Ferns are old. Ferns are really old. They aren’t fertilized by insects

ClockworkOtter ,

That’s extremely interesting!

cizra OP ,

Does this mean it’s off-topic for Mildly Interesting?

boyi ,

yes. this is TIL.

Penguinblue ,

Only flowering plants are pollinated by bees and even then not all of them. Ferns evolved before flowers existed so of course they need a different way to breed.

Raisin8659 ,
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Awesome.

VikingHippie ,

So basically they’re just throwing horny Michael Phelpses (Michaels Phelp?) all around the place? I approve.

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